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  Review by talialp ★★★★½ 5

  המבין יבין נראה לי אני החיילת היחידה בלטרבוקסד

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  Review by Tasha Robinson ★★★½

  Reminded me a good bit of Jafar Panahi's Offside, a similarly funny and dramatic film largely about women navigating a male-dominated society (in this case, as Israeli women serving in the military) but as a virtually all-female group: There's a lot of sympathy and lack of sympathy among these women, who jockey for position and push their own agendas and needs on each other, often aggressively and with no sense of shame at demanding special treatment, or blowing off each other's problems. Entertaining and surprisingly emotionally effective as a series of character studies among a disparate group all stuck in the same situation: Just a little Orange Is The New Black, but in khaki drab.

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  Review by Cindy T ★★★

  Just a few notes from the Tribeca Film Festival. No time for a proper review.

  Zero Motivation is an Israeli comedy about young women completing their mandatory military service. The film reminded me of Private Benjamin: part screwball comedy/part serious drama. The story, told in three chapters, focuses mainly on two friends and their different ambitions. One girl dreams of being stationed in Tel Aviv, where she envisions herself living the high life as an officer. The other girl has no ambitions other than to maintain her top computer game score at the base office, where her main duty is sending out mail.

  I'm not sure the subtitles relayed the humor well. I could tell that what the characters were saying and how they were saying it was much funnier than what I was reading. I wish I could have laughed more.

  Female Israeli filmmaker.

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  Review by col_plimp ★★★½ 2

  Null Motivation - Ein Stromberg-M*A*S*H-up aus der israelischen Wüste

  Eine junge, weibliche Stromberg-Truppe bestreitet ihren Militärdienst in einem Büro fernab vom "lebendigen" Tel Aviv. Außer sämtliche Rekorde von Minesweeper zu brechen, Kaffee für die Offiziere zu servieren (oder auch nicht:) und Gesangduetts gibt es nicht viel, und so werden die Minuten gezählt oder unzählige Versetzungsschreiben verschickt.

  Reichlich Sinn für (staub;)trockensten und schwarzen Humor sollte man mitbringen, um die unterschiedlichen schrägen Typ*innen in einem schwer-sympathischen Cast, die vielen absurden Erlebnisse (Geister), Banalitäten (Aktenvernichter) und natürlich die BFF-Botschaft genießen zu können.
  Ist in drei Kapitel unterteilt die sich jeweils größtenteils um eines der Mädels kümmern, aber natürlich sehr stark miteinander verzahnt sind. Habe ich dann auch über drei Sitzungen verteilt geschaut, was zum Seriengefühl sehr gut passte.

  Einfach der beste und lustigste 'Female deadpan Buddy-Movie' - der mir gerade einfällt 😉

  
  (PS: Da auch viele reale israelische Probleme angesprochen werden mMn dort auch zu Recht diverse Preise abgeräumt.)

  #52FilmsByWomen

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  Review by TayA ★★★★ 1

  די לספור אותנו כל הזמן!
  אנחנו לא נתרבה!

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★½

  68/100

  The Dissolve review. I recommend this more highly than the rating probably suggests—it has some issues with gestalt (as multi-part stories often do), but enough moment-to-moment inspiration that I won't be surprised should director Talya Lavie become a major figure in Israeli cinema down the road.

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  Review by 🐱Andrew Chrzanowski🐱 ★★★½ 3

  ☆"You need a cock, ASAP."☆

  NOPEtober 2021 -- Film #10 of 31

  The dark comedy from Talya Lavie, Efes Beyahasei Enosh ["Zero Motivation"] may have its roots in other irreverent films about military service, from Catch-22 to M.A.S.H., yet separates itself not only from its all-female cast but with some refreshing modern touches and an understated absurdity fitting for the young generation on the screen.

  Israeli Defense Force servicewomen and friends Zohar (Dana Ivgy) and Daffi (Nelly Tagar) are performing their mandatory time in the IDF, stuck in the desert pushing paper. Daffi mostly shreds it, and Zohar fetches coffee for superior officer Rama (Shani Klein). They prefer to play Minesweeper. The two meet a new girl named Tehila (Yonit…

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  Review by Thereal_jj.amit ★★★★ 11

  גם לקולנוע הישראלי יש הברקות מדי פעם.
  יום הקולנוע הישראלי שמח לכולם!

  קולנוע ישראלי | מדורג

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  Review by Itamarw ★★★★½ 1

  בינתיים מהמעט שראיתי יש לנו ממש אחלה קולנוע בארץ,
  באמת שלא ציפיתי שזה יהיה כל כך טוב.

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  Review by JΔΣΞS Β ★★★★ 1

  A 2014 directorial debut about a group of bored young female Israeli soldiers serving their mandatory military time. Think Mean Girls set in a desert military base with subtitles. Surprisingly charming and funny.

  Discussed in episode #122, a Top 10 Last 10 podcast episode, in which we rank the last 10 films we've seen.

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  Review by ayame113 ★★★★★

  "מה הקשר לי ומלחמה אני בסך הכל קצינת שלישות"

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  Review by ‮אליהו מיאזאקי‬ ★★★★★ 1

  אני בדרך כלל נמשך לוויזואליות. צילום מטריף או חגיגת צבעים. אבל הסרט הזה מצליח, בבימוי פשוט, אבל אסתטי, ובלי ליצור שוטים מטורפים של הנגב ושיט כזה, לתת פצצה תסריטית מהממת וכובשת שגם בצפיה רביעית עדיין לא נמאסת!